Dave,
Actually, when I made my first stab at the documentation a couple months ago, I recall that I did run across the presentation pdf. From memory, I believe I glanced through that and finally getting to the .info example and thinking "okay, this looks like it'll be pretty simple.'" There was just enough uncertainty, though, as to what goes where and what I needed to do since, as you well know, there is no accompanying text. So my fink learning adventure proceeded to the Package Manual where I quickly began to lose steam.
Looking back at the presentation now, and after having gone through the process finally, I see that it is _really_ close to what I was looking for actually. Coupled with some text that was most likely given verbally during the presentation and converted to html (or reformat pdf away from slide-format), it would serve as a great intro.
It'd still probably be very useful to point users to the vast array of existing .info files in fink already for other projects. I believe I ultimately visited about a dozen to get a feel for convention and ideas of things to check for. Anyhow, thanks again for the great work!
Cheers! Sean
On Jun 23, 2004, at 08:51, David R. Morrison wrote:
I appreciate the feedback. I wonder whether you had a chance to look at
one other resource linked from the Documentation page: the slides from
a talk I gave "Using Fink: A Developer's How-To" at the 2002 O'Reilly
OS X conference. During the talk itself, I took people through the
creation of a simple fink package in step by step fashion. The slides
probably don't capture that too well, though... As you suggest, we really
need to write a Beginner's Guide.
-- Dave
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